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National Republican., 1887-06-04
EDUCATIONAL.
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BUSINESS COLLEGE,
In commodious halls, National Bank OF the
Republic Building, southwest corner Seventh
and D streets. Established in 1864. More than
10 0000students have been trained in this College.
Services Of It's graduates always In demand.
Thorough instruction given In Rapid
Writing, the English Language, Correspond.
ence, Rapid Calculations, bookkeeping, Busi-
Economy, stenography, and Type Writing.
Regular day and night seRsions; 0 a. M, D. m.
Illustrated circular sent free on application.
HENRY Q. SPENCER, Principal.
MRS. SARA A SPENCER, Vice Principal.
Telephone call 874-2.
EDWARD @. TOWNSEND,
IL TEACHER OF ELOCUTION.
jan2-6m 1877 18th st. NV.
National Republican., 1887-06-04
WxyrrD-EmpIoYwryr.

WANTED-AT ONCE, 100 Statesmen,
wv good wages, and steady work. Fifs-
class territory. open. Apply Immediately 10
7: AUSTIN SHAW, Nurseryman, Rochester,
N. Y.
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can describe the marvellous formation of the
rocks around the lake. Such names as Cleo
patras Needle, the Turks Head the Elephant
and the Devils Doorway convey some idea of
the mighty forms that, rearing themselves
hundreds on hundreds of feet above the lake
they guard, confront and amaze one at every
step. Many OF them suggest aSsemblages of
gigantic Egyptian gods, carved by the fin
gers OF volcanoes, cataracts and whirlpools
ages on ages ago The woods are full Of game
and the waters full of fish, including the
speckled brook trout.
Only about three hours drive away over
beautiful roads are the far famed and yet
too little known Wisconsin dels, miniature
art gallery of natures witcheries and won-
ders. A glory of cavern and valley, of beet
ling crag and frowning precipice, far distanc.
archways overhead and vast powders of moss
grown stones under foot. Towering chasm
walls, winding and twisting so near together
that the explorers hands rest on both sides at
once, and SO high that the blue sky seems
resting fiat upon the slender rift in the roof
of stone through which the dim and pallid
light comes trickling in with the glistening
water drops that perpetually tinkle from
above. And all the vast weird structures Of
stone, walls, roofs and floors, semi-subter-
ranean chambers and corridors, torrent CHS
eled statues, arches and pillars, covered with
an endless profusiOn of exquisite moses and
ferns-fourteen varieties of ferns in q single
canyon The crystal streams that tumble
and foam along the pathway swarm with
speckled trout, and every step and turn re-
veals labyrinth of novel, wild and beautiful
scenes, as though kentuckys Mammoth Cave
had been rent open at the top by an earth
quanv, and tapestried with spray gemmed
aYerCreanS and fnWal.s
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No. 2S

were made TO speak. One, who mad seen the
operator slyly pull a string during the per-
formance was convinced that thereby the
speech was occasioned. The other, possibly
the literary oracle of large circle, had read
somewhere in the papers of man named
.Edmunson,' who had invented an instru-
ment called the "fonegratfer," and was posi-
tive that here was the original machine. The
amount Of logic which these two matrons
displayed would have caused Yale sopho-
more to turn green with envy. When the
crowd finally jostled me away from the dis
putants the matter was still undecided, though
1 believe the advocate of the "fonegratfer"
theory had rather the best of it.
would be far from performing my whole
duty if | neglected to mention another, and
by no means the least interesting, element
which goes to form the crowd clustering
around the ticket wagon. l mean the
young fellows and their girls. If the
youths and maidens are accustomed to the
business, there is nothing particularly inter
esting about their appearance They MUNICH
peanuts in a determinedly aggressive man
ner, elbOwing their way about as II the world
were theirs, and the fullneSS thereof. But
here and there ones eyes rest on couple
wearing an urmistakabiy cat-in- a-strange-
garret air There is something deprecatory
in every motion. The peanuts are purchased,
the gum chewed, the tickets bought, all with
the manner of a criminal ON the gallows. The
occasional winks and sly speeches OF those
from their own neighborhood do not add TO
their ease of manner or comfort OF mind.
Altogether, l fancy that they do not find
circus going the blissful delight they may
have imagined.
The band that heads the procession which
for the past two hours has been winding over
several miles of village streets now enters the
main tent The procession follows. Huck-
sters of every kind-peanut venders, maple
candy men, ice cream sellers, dispensers OF
lemonade-all unite in a vociferOus protest.
But the crowd surges forward. "Tickets,
gents, tickets" and amid shouting and
screaming, laughing and giggling, swearing
and jostling the spectators enter and the show
begins Roe l.. HENDRICK.
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OUR SINGERS ABROAD.

These song birds from America, they came across
the sea
To carol in our operas and take the upper e;
Time was when Garl, Italians held all the lyric
stage,
Time was when fair haired Teutons were the op-
cratic rage;
But now la belle Americaine has come across the
foam
To take the British dollar back to many west
ern home.
Nevadas here, and Nordca, and Broch, and Min
ME IIauk,
And others who but lately sang in Boston and
New York;
1iastreiter Dotti, Enge, too, and Russell and Van
Zandt,
And brilliant Marie Decca to America we grant;
Miss Thursbv, IIenchel, OsgOod, with our Ster-
ling and Hope Glenn,
Could fifty claim Americas most eulogistic pen.
How is it that Americans have this great gift of
song,
That fast they come, and faster still to join the
choral throng?
One fancies that each baby soul in infancy di-
vines
The music Of their mighty streams, the wind harp
in the pines;
And then we hear in London town-and who
would grudge the fee?-
The message Mississippi brings from mountain
unto sea.
london Punch
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Little Laughs.

"Does everything happen for the best!"
Don't know. If l get a chance to try those
things that don't happen I'll find out. st.
Louis Critic.
a young man in Covelo recently thrashed
a clergyman because the church would not
receive bis mother as a member.-San Fran
CISCO Chronicle.
Rev Robert Hall, when asked how many
sermons preacher could prepare i'll week,
replied If he is a man of pre-eminent abil-
ity, one; if he is a man ordinary ability, two;
if he is an ass, six"
"Now, darling, kiss my eyelidS down" said
the poet who wrote Going to Sleep" If she
were anything of a darling, and wanted
money that was in his vest pocket, she would
not kiss his eyelids up.-New Orleans Plea
yune.
She was decorating Der room with pict-
wes, and she perched her husbands photo on
the tOpmOst nail. Then she sat down to ad-
mire her work, and remarked quietly: "Now
everything is lovely, and the goose hangs
high.-New York Sunday Mercury
Mr. Fourstars little girl was there must
tell you of one of her odd little sayings.
Her father has a small round bald spot on
the top of his head, and kissing him at bed
time she remarked, "Stoop down, papsy
dear, want to kiss the place where the lin
ing shows. London Truth
A naturalist notes that during the mating
season the male birds do nothing but try to
show Off before the females. After marriage,
however, the female has to watch her best
while the male goes about and has a good
time Darwin must have been crazy when
he got the notion that men developed from
animals.-Omaha World.
Senator Gndignantly)-Th report going
about that am one of the best poker players
il the country is doing me a great deal of
harm. Senator's Wife (soothingly)-I don't
see why it should, my dear. People pay very
little attention to such idle tales. How does
1t harm you' Senator-I can't get anybody
toplay with me-New York Sun.
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THE SONG THE SIRENS SANG.

In sea caves dark and rocks where hides
The restless wind that haunts the sea.
Where murmuring waves and moaning tides
Chant their unceasng melody;
IN meadows bright with fadeless spring.
Where dead mems bones the light defile,
What were the songs they used to sing,
The sirens of this summer isle?
-on hTeathed and tender, sweet and low,
Across the waters dark and wild,
The wauderer heard their numbers flow.
And all his soul the charm beguiled.
swift through the breakers snowy foam,
He drove his bark with painting breath,
While sirens sang him to his death.
We know their song-they had but one
OdySseus heard the fateful thing
And madness seized Laertes' sOa.
Who heard The Powers that Bloom in
Spring.
And still unchanged in air wCrd,
The sirens sing with treless breath,
Tile same old song Ulysses heard,
And with il still sing men 10 death.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-06-09
CAPITOL AT MADISON.

The capitol is a superb building, modelled
somewhat after the huge white domed gath
ering place of the nations legislators at
Washington, and many of the residences are
exceedingly handsome. Here is the home of
Gen. Lucius J. Fairchild, one armed hero
of Gettysburg, ex-minister to Spain, and now
commander in chief of the Grand Army of
the Republic; and here dwels Governor
Jere Rusk, whose summary stamping out of
the rioters in Milwaukee last year won him
denomination and reelection almost by ac-
clamation. Just across Monona lake is Ton
ya-wa-tha, as enchanting spot as
summer tourists eye ever rested on-a
vista of blue waters with white crested
waves, green sloping banks, and a spacious
hotel and tasteful cottages embowered in
the shades of the mighty 'forest primeval,"
sail boats and row boats darting in every
direction, tiny steamers putting to and fro
with their loads of excursioniStS, fishing par
tieSicoming in laden with finny trophies and
big yarns, and the inevitable spoony couples
drifting in their egg shell barks, with both
heads under one parasOl, or both hands pluck
ing the same water lily. 1t is a paradisaic
scene when the streets Of the great cities east
and south are smoking with dog days heat.
Here, on these beautiful shores, the "Monona
Lake assembly, or western ClauUauqua,
meets annually to discuss in ponderous
phrases "The Whenceness of the What" and
"The Wherefore of the Why" and tens of
thousands gather to see and hear it done.
Bayard Taylor, Horace Greeley and other
illustrious writers have paid glorious tributes
to the poetic beauty of Madison; and it was
of her that Longfellow sang:
Pour limpid lakes! four naiads,
Or sylvan dieties, are there,
In flowing robes Of azure dressed;
Four lovely handmaids that uphold
Their shining mirrors, trimmed with gold,
To the fair city in the west"
One hour further toward the setting sun
and the weird, wild beauties of Devils lake
burst into view. A lake blue as the sapphire
skies its bosom reflects, deep almost to bot
tomlessness, with no inlet or outlet, swarm
ing with fish, and absolutely walled in
by mountains OF perpendicular stone, carved
by the sculptor hands of earthquake and
flood into countless fantastic shapes. The
whole region abounds in wonders. Huge
castles and spires Of many colored stone tow
ering aloft from level, sandy plains, and Curl
Gus and gigantic figures, hewn from the solid
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everlasting equity of things terrestrial de-
mands it. The small boy is, of course, bound
to attend the circus; and, as blackberry pick
ing is his only source of revenue, he must
perforce obtain the requisite funds III this
manner Any deviation from the usual sea-
son on the part of the show company will ell
tail the loss of this strongest patron, and con-
sequently of his paternal ancestor as well,
for who ever heard of the head of family
attending a circus for any other reason than
''to take care of the children, you know"
Consequently the company, the season, and
the small boy pull together, and, by dint OF
united effort, succeed in producing pageant
that, to be appreciated, must be seen.
AT this juncture it may occur to some that,
as the parent profits by his sons attendance
by attending likewise, he might be expected
to furnish the necessary funds for the entire
family; but in the rural districts this is con-
sdered the poorest of logic. In the Nile val
ley the cost of bringing a child to maturity is
said to be 50. Among our bucolic neighborS
the amount is somewhat greater, but the con-
slant effort of the husbandman is to keep the
margin as narrow as possible.
For about two weeks antedating the arrival
of the "Greatest Show on Earth" an unusual
activity is seen on all hands. The compare
tive merits of rival berry patches are warmly
discussed. Finally every one settles down to
work with an cumulative zeal worthy of any
cause. This is a veritable harvest for the
village housewives. Canning and stew1ng
are the order of the day. Most Of the canned
berries and berry pies which delight the pal
ates of our village epicures trace their origin
to this same circus Thus farreaching are
the effects of the genuine American "institu-
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Testing an Improved Car Heater.

About 500 people stood in the rain for half
an hour the other day across the tracks of the
Hudson River railroad, near Forty-ffth street
bridge, to see rather novel test in the way
of improved car heaters. A patent stove
and boiler, incased in steel armor, which
weighs 200 pounds, was dropped from the top
of the bridge on pile of dry goods boxes and
imflammable rubbish to prove that even in the
most violent shocks the fire inside the heater
could not escape and catch the broken parts
of the car The heater was a big steel boiler,
with stove inside through which some coils
of pipe filled with water passed. The pipes
were to be run up and down the cars sides in
an endless coil and the heated water in them
was to heat the car. The test was apparently
successful The fire was lighted and the heater
tipped off the bridge, falling forty feet with
out bursting or letting the coal escape. The
only effect of the shock was to break one of
the inner water pipe coils, which put out the
fire-New York Tribune.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-06-09

Won WEDELL-PIESDORF.
Liberal majority had come. In accordance
with this, a member of the Conservative
party, Herr Won Wedell Piesdorf, was elected
president. He had served in this capacity
already in the previous reichstag. Herr
Wedell Piesdorf was born May 90, 1887, in
Frankfort on the Oder and received his uni
versity education at Heidelberg and Berlin.
In the year 1858 he entered into state service,
occupying position in the Berlin city court
He had quite successful career, and after
holding various important governmental
positions, in 1879 was elected a member of
the house of deputies of Prussia. Since 1884
he has been member of the reichstag.
Dr. p A. Buhl, a member of the National
Liberal party, is the first vice president. He
was born Aug. 2, 1887, in Ettlingen, near
Karlsruhe, studied at Heidelberg, and at
tanned the degree Of D. p. Afterward he de-
voted himself to the management of his
estates in the Palatinate, especially to wine
growing. Since 1871 he has belonged to the
reichstag, and for the past few years has been
hereditary member of the Bavarian reichs-
rath.
The second viceepresident is Freiherr Won
Unruhe-Bomst a member of the government
party. He was born Aug &C. 1926, in Ber-
lin, thus being the oldest of the three presi-
dents He studied law at Berlin, Heidelberg
and Halle, and then entered the service of
the government. Since 1867 he has been
member of the reichstag, and since 1878 mar
shal of the provincial diet of Posen. He is
also very active as commander of the order
of the knights of st. John. On the 2Sth of
March all the presidents were, on motion of
Delegate Windthorst, confirmed by acclama-
ton for the entire session.
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TIE BEAUTIFUL WEST.
A REGION OF LOVELY LANDSCAPES
AND CHARMING LAKES.
A Correspondent Takes Trip Into q
Charming Section of the Great and
Glorious Republic and Lets His I'M
agination Run Riot.
Especial Correspondence

popCIISil WI IlColouutuCt.I
CHICAGO, May 17-If some of the Ameri-
cans who annually or semi occasionally 90 to
Europe in search of something to see would
take a trip over some of these northwestern
roads, they would see more that is romantic,
picturesque, sublime and beautiful than
many of them ever see in an entire European
tour. 1t is a journey through a new world
fairyland, fly through realm of romance,
a whirling, endless feast to eye, heart and
Imagination.
palace car flight of eighty-fve miles
from Chicago along the shores of Lake Mich
igan, through a pastoral Eden of verdant
fields and meadows, fruit or blossom laden
orchards vineyards, gardens and shady
groves dotted thick with lovely rural houses;
through pretty suburban towns and through
hourishing cities, carries one to Milwaukee
the rich and prosperous metropolis of Wiscon-
sin, one of the handSOmest cities in the Union,
with splendid public buildings, immense
mills and factories, the biggest breweres in
the world, elegant residences, enchanting
drives and George Peck. A run of thirty
miles farther, past the stately soldiers home, 4
with its superb buildings, its flower gardens
and its winding walks and drives; past nu-
merous tiny lakes and foliage embowered vii
lagos, and Waukesha is reached. Unknown
ten years ago, its fountains Of healing waters
have made it famous throughout the world
Only a half hours run away is Oconomo-
woo, with its twenty seven lakes in one
silvery chain, its gay hotels, its yachts and
troops Of summer saunterers. Forty miles
further westward lies Rock lake, one of the
loveliest little lacustrine gems upon the globe,
ten miles round, hemmed in by forests, its
surface dotted with water lilies and its crystal
depths alive with black bass, perch, pike,
pickerel and muskallonge. Another hours
spin through perpetual series of views as be-
witching as ever graced a painters canvas,
Madison, the capital OF Wisconsin, ''the
Venice of America" is reached. Standing
on a high point of land surrounded by
cluster of glorious lakes, nearly every street
ends in boat houses and bath houses Its
lights at night are reflected far across the
liquid mirrors, and the plash of oars and
boatmen's songs recall all the dreamiest men,
ories of that fair city whose streets are rip
ping waters and whose coaches are gondolas.
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Helena, Montana, Thursday, June 9, 1887

Martin " Mott, IL Wheaton, ~ declared the
right of the president to decide finally and
conclusively whether the militia should be
summoned, and place them under federal
officers ranking their own. 1t is worth
noting, however, that the revived militia
system in nearly all the states differs from
the old system in this: the troops are not
enrolled and placed in infantry, artillery or
cavalry by the state; they volunteer under a
general law. organize on their own motion.
choose for themselves what branch they will
serve in, then report, are accepted, and re-
ceive their arms. But those arms remain
state property, and bonds are given for their
care and return in case the organization dis
bands. We have, therefore, a purely volun-
teer militia, to serve as nucleus in case of
war, till the larger body OF undrilled citizens
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and not infrequently the majority did get
drunk after the muster closed. And thus the
system wore out in all the northern states. 1t
has been asserted by well informed Off
cials that the three great states of the north
west did not contain 5000 well drilled men
on the 18th of April, 1861. The fact that
Ellsworth's Zouaves could execute every
movement in drill and manual excited amaze
ment in 1860. But in the south local condi-
tions caused the militia system to be retained
in some vigor; and commenting on this, there
was universal prediction in the north that
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-06-09

MESS HOUSE SCAMP GEORGE WASHINGTON
can be drawn upon; and so much latitude is
allowed in uniform that an interstate encamp-
ment seems almost like that of different
nations. The drill and encampment at Wash
ington, which began on the 23d inst, has
revived an interest in militia matters. We
give herewith portraits of two of the active
promoters of the encampment and drill, and
also sketches of Camp George Washington"
and IFS surroundings
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-06-09
The Handkerchief Cure.

Poet and Editor James r. Randall created a
sensation in Augusta the other day. A street
car horse became unruly and male passen-
ger proposed throwing sand in the animals
eyes. "Oh. mol" said the colonel, "don't do
that; it is unnecessary and inhuman. The
poor beast only needs to be diverted. Tie a
handkerchief around his fore leg and he will
start off promptly. The driver agreed to try
it, and the horse moved at once. Then the
driver snatched his whip, looked at the colo
mel and exclaimed: IF that don't beat the
Dutch. Philadelphia Times
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/ Texas Editor Rises to Explain.

The Standard wishes to correct a false
Impression i'll reference to the ''firing" Of the
EDITORS wife and mother-in-law from the
Methodist church. They were not put out of
The building, as some suppose, but merely had
their names erased from the roll of member
snip. The editor is not the kind of man to
quietly submit to having his wife and her
mother 'tired' bodily from a church or else
where He is not built that way; neither
is hls Observation-Disclosures Standard
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-06-09
Tricks of the Modern Truck Driver.

"There, nowl Git out O the tracks with
that old rotten ark" The street car driver
nressed down on the brake and leaned over
the dash board as he uttered these words.
sTbat's one o. the tricks of these fellows who
have old carts they want smashed" he con-
tinued. with a hot, sulphuric breath. They
get into the tracks and stay there untll one
of us fellows gets out O. patience ana taxes a
wheel off their carts and then they nrlng a
bill against the company for damages. !ts
an old trick and all the boys are on TO u. =
Chicago Herald.
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Didn't See the Joke.

Yes, my hands are soft, a" said dudish and
conceited young fellow the other night in
small company, as he admiringly looked at
those useless appendages that had never done
q days work. do you know how I do it,"
ne exclaimed proudly. II wear gloves on my
hands every night to sleep in"
DO you sleep with your hat on also"
aked pert young woman.
4. ana the young fellow replied in the mega
wv. ~,e and looked wonderingly because the
OOnlpany smiled-Hebrew Standard.